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 xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 207 wood, which stands on higher ground to the right. A horseman, and a peasant conversing with a woman seated at the roadside. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. Sale. M. Vogrich, Berlin, November 22, 1904, No. 55. 653. A WOODLAND ROAD. Two figures. Panel, 14 J inches by 13! inches. Sale. Lawrie and others, London, January 28, 1905, No. 107 (525, George Salting). 653^7. A Wooded Landscape. A peasant and dogs on a sandy road. In the distance is a church. Panel, 26 inches by 34 inches. Sale. Aubrey Cartwright and others, London, June 3, 1905, No. 75, (588, Buttery). 654. A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH A ROAD. Two figures. Panel, 10 inches by 15 inches. Sale. London, May 31, 1906, No. 97. 654*7. A Wooded Landscape. Cottages, figures, and sheep on a sandy road. Panel, n^ inches by 14^ inches. Sales. London, December 20, 1902, No. 94. J. Y. V. Vernon and others, London, February 23, 1907, No. 102. 655. A Wooded Landscape with a Decayed Oak. In a little glade in the right foreground is a decayed oak in sunlight, overgrown with flowering milfoil. In the right-hand corner is a flowering shrub. In the left centre foreground is a tree-shrub. In the middle distance stretches a thick wood ; a great tree is prominent on the left. Signed in full in the centre ; panel, 16^ inches by 13 inches. Sale. Munich, December 10, 1907, No. 20. 656. A Wooden Bridge over a Stream. To the left is a clump of high trees. In the distance is a church tower. It hangs too high to be properly judged, but seems to be genuine. In the Palace, Dessau, No. 394. 657. A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A WOODEN BRIDGE. A bridge, roughly made of logs, crosses a river in the centre of the middle distance. A woman with a basket on her head, a boy, and a dog cross to the left. In the centre, in the right foreground, are two cows. The bank to the left is densely wooded. In front is a group of two girls standing and a seated herdsman. Near them are three goats and the head and neck of a reddish-brown cow. The bank to the right has a few trees and ascends towards a distant hill. Clouds with sunlit edges in the sky. The figures and animals are by Berchem.